Saturday, July 22, 2006

Friend or foe?

This was a news announcement, reported in the Riverbend blog and elsewhere a while back:

وزارة الدفاع تدعو المواطنين الى عدم الانصياع لاوامر دوريات الجيش والشرطة الليلية اذا لم تكن برفقة قوات التحالف العاملة في تلك المنطقة

The translation:“The Ministry of Defense requests that civilians do not comply with the orders of the army or police on nightly patrols unless they are accompanied by coalition forces working in that area.”

Why? Because the insurgents, sectarianists and criminal gangs often either impersonate security forces or actually are the security forces, just infiltrators.

I'm sure the Iraqis were delighted to have this clarified.

The American capacity building of a neutral Iraqi Security Force is evidently making great progress.

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